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Software, off-line programming, CAM, for metal cutting machine tools
News Release from: Cadem Technologies | Subject: Products for CAD/CAM, DNC, production monitoring
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 March 2004
Cut metal intelligently and stay
competitive
Products for CAD/CAM, DNC and production monitoring are helping manufacturers around the globe to cut metal intelligently and remain profitable in highly competitive manufacturing.
Products for CAD/CAM, DNC and production monitoring are helping manufacturers around the globe to cut metal intelligently and remain profitable in the highly competitive manufacturing industry Cadem's range of uniquely designed products for CAD/CAM, DNC and production monitoring are helping manufacturers around the globe to cut metal intelligently and remain profitable in the highly competitive manufacturing industry
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 5 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Bangalore, India-based company's products provide assistance in three distinct areas of manufacture.
The first of these is its conversational CAD/CAM software CAPSmill and CAPSturn.
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Designed for the production environment, the capabilities of CAPSmill and CAPSturn go far beyond those of traditional CAD/CAM systems.
Cadem has identified the bottleneck faced by many production machine shops - that being the excessive time spent creating documentation and job quotes.
Cadem's products do these tasks automatically, and drastically reduce the time and money spent on these tasks.
Key features of these software suites are: * Training time 4 hours * Dry run the job on the PC instead of on the machine.
* Generate the NC program.
* Check the spindle power used in each operation.
* Get the cycle time for making job quotes and schedules.
* Generate the process sheet.
* Generate the tools list.
* DNC to the machine.
Cadem's second product area is DNC.
The company's NCnet DNC is scalable from 1 to 128 machines.
To date Cadem has supplied NCnet to 80,000 CNC machine shops worldwide.
NCnet offers users many advantages, some of which are listed here: * Call or send programs remotely from the CNC machine.
* Drip feed large programs for die machining.
* Keep track of different versions of programs.
* Log DNC transactions.
* Use multiport serial cards or LAN to connect multiple machines.
* Resume drip feed machining after an interruption automatically.
The final area of expertise from Cadem is in machine shop monitoring.
Here, its SHOPtrack software enables users to measure and improve productivity.
It achieves this by monitoring CNC machines and providing managers with the latest production information.
Production and productivity data is always at your fingertips.
You do not have to go to the shop floor to get first-hand data - the data comes to you, wherever you are.
Here are just some of the ways that SHOPtrack can help the busy production manager: * Keep track of parts count.
* Identify abnormal cycle times.
* Keep an eye on machines and operators in the night shift.
* Get parts count on your cell phone as SMS.
* Get detailed production data by email.
* View production status from anywhere on a LAN.
* Identify and remove causes of unnecessary idle times.
Cadem's success is confirmed by the fact that its products are sold and supported in 22 countries.
The products are available in English, Greek, Dutch, German and Korean.
CNC machine builders, sellers and CAD/CAM vendors are welcome on Stand 5470 at MACH 2004 to see how they can become a part of that success.
MACH 2004 - April 19-23 - NEC Birmingham, UK.
Stand 5470.
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